Confessions of Japanese war criminals

Editor's note: To offer a clearer picture of history, the State Archives Administration released a large number of files on 45 Japanese war criminals who were tried and convicted in China after World War II. The special military tribunal of the Supreme People's Court held public trials, sentencing the criminals to eight-to-20 years prison term. China Daily is publishing abstracts of the criminals' confessions.

Giichi Sumioka

Sumioka was born in Osaka, Japan, in 1917. In 1939, he joined the army and invaded Xuancheng county, Anhui province, in the same month. After Japan's surrender in August 1945, he took refuge among the troops of Yan Xishan, a Kuomintang military officer. He was arrested on July 10, 1948, in Taiyuan, Shanxi province.